Gemcutting

Taking advantage of the skills of the armor and weapon smiths, the gemcutter specializes in honing and crafting gems to decorate and enhance equipment.

While some gems only have minor effects, others found in crypts or carried by those practicing darker arts may carry strange powers that can be harnessed by the gemcutter's craft. Enemies tend to drop rough gems that the gemcutter can turn into powerful enchantments, and these can be placed into other crafted items to make them more potent.

As the gemcutter is familiar with working with a fresh set of armor or weaponry, they can also provide some more straightforward modifications such as counterweights or other reinforcement.

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Gemcutting may be acquired at level 40 as one of your two professions. There is a trainer in each of the three Resource and Gathering zones who will get you started for a fee of
760
. Paying this fee will teach you every tier 1 recipe and give you the first quest.

The following quests must be completed to become a master gemcutter. Listed are each of the progression quests, along with the raw gems needed for each quest (though note that you need only cut three gems from each category to progress).

Every gemcutting recipe consists of a quantity of jeweler kits, purchased from the tradeskills vendor, and a raw gem. Raw gems come in six different colors. 6 tier levels 40, 50, 60, 70, 75 and 80 for a total of 36 different types. These are referred to as Tiers 5 through 10. An updated table of raw gems post patch 1.05 is available on the Gems page.

Raw gems are dropped by all level 40+ Humanoid NPCs.

The Jeweler's Tools are consumed upon cutting a gem. They cost 3 copper each and they are used at rates of 1/2/4/8/9/10 for each tier of gem.

There is a recipe drop for alchemist to break gems up called Transforming This allows you to take a gem and break it into multiples of lower level gem of the same color. The quantity of gems you get depends on the level of the gem being transformed and the level you are transforming to. <temp>

A list of prefixes for each color/cut combination, along with stats at the six tiers, is available on the Gems page.